Martino Sabia

Software developer and technology addicted.

[Philosophy Of Physics @PhilosophyOfPhy]

In 1937, a 21-year-old MIT student sat in a quiet library, mapping abstract philosophical logic onto electrical circuits to pass the time.

By the time he finished his thesis, the young man had mathematically proven that mechanical telephone switches could perform complex calculations. Instead of just routing phone calls, they were destined to become thinking machines.

He had just discovered the mathematical trigger for digital computing.

But when he published his work, the leading engineers of the industrial world paid little attention, viewing his mathematics as a mere academic parlor trick.

His name was Claude Shannon.

It would take years for the industrial establishment to fully realize he was right and adopt the binary logic that now powers every computer, smartphone, and network on Earth.

His breakthrough against traditional engineering is the ultimate lesson in what happens when rigid practices clash with unexpected philosophical reality.
In the early 20th century, engineers believed they understood circuit design. They knew that as telephone networks grew, they needed more physical wires and relays. But traditional engineering offered no universal science; it was a manual process of brute-force trial and error.

The systems would grow into a chaotic, tangled mess of blueprints and copper lines.
The entire industrial establishment agreed: every circuit, no matter how complex, had to be wired by manual experimentation. It was a tedious, costly formula.

But in that library, Shannon realized the establishment had left a massive variable out of their equations: 19th-century symbolic philosophy.

Shannon recalculated the engineering, factoring in what happens when you treat an electrical switch using the laws of Boolean algebra.

What he found shattered the industrial consensus.

He proved that an electrical switch has only two possible states: it is either closed and letting power through, or open and blocking the current. This was mathematically identical to True (1) and False (0).

The circuit could evaluate logical statements. There was no limit to what it could compute. It could automate human thought, transforming physical electricity into digital logic.

When Shannon presented this concept, mainstream electrical engineers were skeptical. They couldn't accept that an abstract philosophical concept could solve real-world hardware bottlenecks.
Shannon was initially ignored. The establishment stuck to their traditional wiring methods.

Instead of fighting a rigid, closed system, Shannon quietly expanded his work into Information Theory, proving that all data could be compressed into a universal currency called the "bit." Decades later, when the global tech revolution exploded, the world realized the 21-year-old student had been right all along.

The philosophical blueprint Shannon left behind is a vital truth for navigating complex problems and institutional pushback:

Comforting traditions will always be more popular than disruptive innovations. Trust the system's underlying logic anyway.

Most of us approach our careers and projects seeking the validation of current experts or established guidelines. When we propose a radical new idea or try to change a broken system, and the authorities tell us we are wrong, our instinct is to assume our logic is flawed. We abandon our data to fit the consensus.

But Shannon’s legacy proves that traditional industry consensus is not the same thing as truth.
Gatekeepers are human; they protect their own methods, their own training, and their own comfort.

What is a bottleneck, a project, or a direction you’ve abandoned just because an expert or a boss told you it wouldn't work? What happens if you stop looking for their permission and trust the structural logic of your own work?

[kitze the 🐐 @thekitze]

i touched a dockerfile today

[Marko Denic @denicmarko]

Just read the documentation!

The documentation:

[Programming Wisdom @CodeWisdom]

"The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit." - Anonymous

[Programming Wisdom @CodeWisdom]

"To be a programmer is to develop a carefully managed relationship with error. There’s no getting around it. You either make your accommodations with failure, or the work will become intolerable." – Ellen Ullman

[Roshan Patel @roshanpateI]

bless her little heart

[Theo - t3.gg @theo]

Incredibly cursed

[memenetes @memenetes]

Helping devs using Kubernetes

[Martino Sabia @ezu]

@iamgettingwiser @naughty_glimmer @SindenWarren @lesiavasylenko Maybe we should consider only the energy sector, which is directly tied with the Russian government (major financer of government). Overall Russian businesses, accounting for negative cash flow with Germany pay little taxes. For me though, all EU is equally responsible.

[Hartmann the Anarchist @PhilBrown62]

@StephenAtHome "For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions."
~Baron de Montesquieu

[Tim Cook @tim_cook]

“People with passion can change the world for the better.”— SJ. Hard to believe it’s been 10 years. Celebrating you today and always.

[Emily Kager @EmilyKager]

pair programming is like a night out with friends because everybody talks about how much they want to do it but nobody wants to drive

[I Am Devloper @iamdevloper]

Dear companies who try and squeeze 3 working days into 1 “day” and call it a hackathon:

What are you doing?

[Eurosport IT @Eurosport_IT]

Damiano Caruso, sei un signore 💙💙💙

#EurosportCICLISMO | #Giro104

[Martino Sabia @ezu]

@Rishman88 Yeah!!!! Wait a minute, are sure it’s me? 😂

[Martino Sabia @ezu]

@mxanathar That’s why I proudly don’t use a printer at home from 2009. My wife thinks it’s for my environmental concerns... 😂

[Martino Sabia @ezu]

In Photos: America Rises in a Seventh Night of Protest
https://t.co/0e5Q8NcZQ9

[Charlotte Chang @Charlot62875672]

#Covid_19 Again,we send 6 patients out of hospital! Two doctors were so glad that they began to dance ballet in Suzhou，Anhui province,China.